Army Carl Beck remembers an attack on an enemy tank by Airborne infantry in Normandy
Carl Beck, 101st Airborne Division / 1:15
Bill Savich shares the story of how he won his first Silver Star during a hazardous mission in Italy
Bill Savich, 88th Infantry / 8:58 Bill Savich shares his experience of defending the Delatombre Ridge against the crack troops of the Hermann Goering Division in Northern Italy
Bill Savich, 88th Infantry / 8:33 Bill Savich volunteers to save a patrol trapped in a minefield in Italy (for the second time)
Bill Savich, 88th Infantry / 7:10 Bill Savich shares his story of coming down Mt. Alto in Italy and encountering a German tank
Bill Savich, 88th Infantry / 4:26 Bill Savich recalls his experience of being wounded during the assault on Valterra, Italy
Bill Savich, 88th Infantry / 9:09 An American plane crashes upon landing in a remote Chinese airfield. Staff Sgt. Edlemann is trapped while the plane burns around him
Mitch Touart, 11th Bombardment Squadron / 3:00 Brigadier General Harold Dye (retired) recounts an amazing story that all started with an artillery barrage at a Rhine crossing
Harold Dye, 569th Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion / 9:00 Brigadier General Harold Dye (retired) recalls a prisoner exchange gone wrong near the Czechoslovakian border after the war
Harold Dye, 569th Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion / 8:04 Brigadier General Harold Dye (retired) recounts the tragic death of a Lieutenant towards the end of the war in Germany near the Rhine
Harold Dye, 569th Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion / 2:16 Francis Anderson shares the amazing story of how he was caught behind enemy lines as well as his journey back to base in North Africa
Francis Anderson, 1st Armored Division / 9:00 Francis Anderson recounts the patrol in Italy during which he won a Bronze Star
Francis Anderson, 1st Armored Division / 4:30 Francis Anderson tells of how he was wounded in Italy
Francis Anderson, 1st Armored Division / 2:30 Fred Pounds recounts an unsettling experience with German prisoners (Caution: Graphic)
Fred Pounds, 76th Infantry / 1:00 Andy Kiddey recounts a close call with Italian soldiers in North Africa
Andy Kiddey, 1st Armored / 1:47 Fred King shares an experience of being overrun by a German assault in Anzio
Fred King, 45th Infantry Division / 3:00 John Souther recalls firing on the leaning Tower of Pisa
John Souther, 1st Armored / 2:09 Infantryman Jim Paine recalls a consistent theme for those who died
Jim Paine, 100th Division / 1:17 Col. Jack Jacobs (ret.) recalls battling for a Catholic Church in Northern Vietnam
Col. Jack Jacobs (ret.), 9th Infantry Division / 3:16 Glenn Gooch recounts the harrowing episode of his first combat experience in France
Glenn Gooch, 4th Infantry / 2:00 Joe Peoples describes a close call in Germany when a prisoner put a gun in his face.
Joe Peoples, 9th Armored Division / :58 Martin Pfotenhauer recalls his movements from entry into Korea until his unit found a stable location for their field hospital.
Martin Pfotenhauer, 8063 M.A.S.H. / 4:21 Jim Fletcher faces numerous ambushes from informants while living in the jungles of Burma.
Jim Fletcher, OSS Detachment 101 / 2:14 Jim Fletcher goes from standard GI in the States to OSS operator in Burma, without knowing it.
Jim Fletcher, OSS Detachment 101 / 6:07 Jim Fletcher is left a very serious and familiar warning in Burma.
Jim Fletcher, OSS Detachment 101 / 2:46 Jim Fletcher and the Kachin rebels get flushed out of their camp on Thanksgiving and take the long road home.
Jim Fletcher, OSS Detachment 101 / 7:54 Bob Welsh recalls leading his reconnaissance team into an explosive situation.
Bob Welsh, 87th Infantry Division / 5:36 Bob Welsh tells the story of an attempt to capture two Germans escalating into a massive firefight on the Siegfried Line.
Bob Welsh, 87th Infantry Division / 5:43 Bob Welsh tells the story of surviving a German artillery barrage with a little help from lady luck.
Bob Welsh, 87th Infantry Division / 4:57 Craig Leyda remembers his Cobra being shot down in the middle of Vietnamese infantry.
Craig Leyda, 9th Cavalry Regiment / 5:18 Craig Leyda describes the devastating firepower of the Cobra helicopter and the aftermath of rocket attacks.
Craig Leyda, 9th Cavalry Regiment / 4:10 Craig Leyda tells the story of a colorful airborne attack against Vietnamese forces.
Craig Leyda, 9th Cavalry Regiment / 1:36 Joe Peoples, Dave Williams and Andy Carpenter share their stories of crossing the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen, the last standing span over the Rhine, in March of 1945.
Joe Peoples, 9th Armored Division / 10:58 Dave Williams, Joe Peoples and Andy Carpenter share their stories of crossing the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen, the last standing span over the Rhine, in March of 1945.
Dave Williams, 78th Infantry Division / 10:58 Andy Carpenter, Joe Peoples and Dave Williams share their stories of crossing the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen, the last standing span over the Rhine, in March of 1945.
Andy Carpenter, 774th Tank Battalion / 10:58 Jim Horton recalls his unit retreating from the invading Japanese in the Philippines in 1942.
Jim Horton, 21st Infantry Division / 5:03 After surrendering to the Japanese, Jim Horton describes taking part in the Bataan Death March in the Philippines.
Jim Horton, 21st Infantry Division / 4:42 Hughes Davault describes the joy of mail call. (Interview contributed by Russell Gray)
Hughes Davault, 339th Fighter Squadron / 1:42 Richard Eaton takes part in the confusing and dangerous Airborne drop over Southern France, just days after the landings at Normandy.
Richard Eaton, 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team / 3:05 While making his way into Northern France, Richard Eaton and a mixed company of Airborne troops take fire from German 88s in a nearby mountain range.
Richard Eaton, 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team / 2:41 Richard Eaton faces death, the cold, and some heroism during the Battle of the Bulge.
Richard Eaton, 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team / 9:50 Richard Eaton becomes second in command of a Ranger company during the push to retake Seoul for the second time.
Richard Eaton, 3rd Ranger Infantry Company / 7:35 Hugh Fleming recalls experiencing an air raid in a fog-shrouded town in North Africa.
Hugh Fleming, 2640th Truck Company / 2:34 William Bates joins an amphibious truck unit and after training, participates in the Battle of Anzio.
William Bates, DUKW Crew Member / 2:55 William Bates participates in the surprise attack on the Italian city of Salerno.
William Bates, DUKW Crew Member / 7:26 William Bates tries to make his way back to his unit after a month in a field hospital.
William Bates, DUKW Crew Member / 3:38 After taking anti-aircraft fire during a mission over France, Robert Benton finds returning to his base in England extremely difficult.
Robert Benton, 36th Fighter Group / 6:08 Phil Sligar and company invade Mexico during the height of WWII.
Phil Sligar, 497th Bomber Group / 2:09 Phil Sligar and other men aboard an Army bomber endure flak and fatigue in the skies over Japan.
Phil Sligar, 497th Bomber Group / 4:33 Bob Keller and his mixed unit air drop into a small city to capture troops of an NVA transport company.
Bob Keller, 5th Special Forces Group / 1:47 Bob Keller and his unit come across a VC tunnel that he has to search alone.
Bob Keller, 5th Special Forces Group / 4:37 Stuart Jamison recalls meeting Lt. Hetherington, Staff Sgt. Pinkham, Maj. Huynhl, Sgt. Maj. Tau and 200 hostile Viet Cong on his first day on the job as an advisor to Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) soldiers at Xa Xiem.
Stuart Jamison, 9th Infantry Division (ARVN) / 5:07 Stuart Jamison talks about a time his unit cornered a Viet Cong Main Force Battalion during the Tet Offensive.
Stuart Jamison, 9th Infantry Division (ARVN) / 12:55 Stuart Jamison recalls observing the reality and immediacy of death as his unit assaults a Viet Cong company during the Second Phase Tet Offensive.
Stuart Jamison, 9th Infantry Division (ARVN) / 4:45 Stuart Jamison describes treating a wounded fellow advisor in the open during heavy fire from Viet Cong forces on February, 18 during the Tet Offensive.
Stuart Jamison, 9th Infantry Division (ARVN) / 13:59 Stuart Jamison recounts the destruction of his battalion on February 26, 1968.
Stuart Jamison, 9th Infantry Division (ARVN) / 19:15 Jack Brantley and his artillery unit engage the German Army at the French port of Lorient.
Walter Jackson Brantley, 695th Armored Field Artillery Battalion / 8:98 Jack Brantley recalls firing on the German town of Wesel as well as the aftermath of attempting to cross the Rhine river.
Walter Jackson Brantley, 695th Armored Field Artillery Battalion / 3:01 Jack Brantley and his unit receive the Presidential Unit Citation for action in the French city Metz.
Walter Jackson Brantley, 695th Armored Field Artillery Battalion / 8:58 Jack Brantley and his unit try to survive the cold while in combat during the Battle of the Bulge.
Walter Jackson Brantley, 695th Armored Field Artillery Battalion / 9:42 Earl Williams recalls his experience during the Bataan Death March.
Earl Williams, Philippine Division / 13:18 Earl Williams goes from Manila to Japan in a work detail and then has to survive until the end of the war.
Earl Williams, Philippine Division / 9:36 James Moore lands at Omaha beach on D+2 and recounts the journey from Normandy, to Berlin, and back home.
James Moore, 2nd Armored Division / 5:51 Ken Clark recalls his first air-to-air combat experience in the skies over Ormac Bay.
Ken Clark, 49th Fighter Group / 2:08 Ken Clark and his flight leader engage a single Japanese fighter over Ormac Bay.
Ken Clark, 49th Fighter Group / 3:30 Rocky Bleier tells his story of determination--from the football fields of the U.S. to the rice-patties of Vietnam, and back again despite a life-changing injury he suffered during the war. (4-time Super Bowl winning Pittsburgh Steeler.)
Rocky Bleier, Americal Division (23rd Infantry Division) / 14:29 Rocky Bleier remembers the "foxhole prayer" that he made as he lay wounded after a grenade explosion in Vietnam. (4-time Super Bowl winning Pittsburgh Steeler. www.rockybleier.com)
Rocky Bleier, Americal Division (23rd Infantry Division) / 5:10 Martin Pfotenhauer explains the duties, lifestyles, organization, work ethic, and success rate of the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, or M.A.S.H., in Korea.
Martin Pfotenhauer, 8063 M.A.S.H. / 6:59 Martin Pfotenhauer recalls how the war changed when the Chinese entered the war in October, 1950.
Martin Pfotenhauer, 8063 M.A.S.H. / 1:27 Oliver Diffey gets caught up in the notorious Airborne mis-drops over Normandy on D-Day and spends three confusing days trying to find his unit.
Oliver Diffey, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment / 5:45 While in the hills outside of Sainte-Mère-Église in Normandy, a series of attacks and counter-attacks leads Oliver Diffey to a serious injury caused by a German mortar round.
Oliver Diffey, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment / 5:18 Oliver Diffey and his unit have to survive the bitter cold during the Battle of the Bulge at the town of Bastogne, surrounded by German troops.
Oliver Diffey, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment / 5:26 Brigadier General Harold Dye (retired) has to cross the Demarcation Line into North Korea to investigate a North Korean claim that a South Korean army unit had invaded North Korea and engaged in combat.
Harold Dye, UN Military Armistice Commission / 10:14 Brigadier General Harold Dye (retired) is sent to investigate an incident where the North Koreans claim a South Korean military unit crossed the Demarcation Line illegally to steal North Korean property.
Harold Dye, UN Military Armistice Commission / 8:18 Brigadier General Harold Dye (retired) and others deal with a wayward American observation plane, that after crossing into North Korea and being shot down, almost became the spark that re-ignited the Korean War.
Harold Dye, UN Military Armistice Commission / 5:23 Stephen Chick recalls storming and surviving the Omaha Beach invasion on D-Day as his friends and fellow soldiers fell around him.
Stephen Chick, 5th Ranger Battalion / 11:46 Neill "Jack" Cox tells his story of a typical draftee's experience, going from college to the front lines.
Neill "Jack" Cox, 36th Infantry Division / 12:07 Neill "Jack" Cox tells of his machine gun squad's violent encounter with a large SS unit in the French wilderness.
Neill "Jack" Cox, 36th Infantry Division / 9:09 Neill "Jack" Cox and a friend dive into heavy artillery and machine gun fire to save an injured soldier.
Neill "Jack" Cox, 36th Infantry Division / 8:26 Neill "Jack" Cox and his unit face heavy resistance as they cross the Siegfried line and move into Germany.
Neill "Jack" Cox, 36th Infantry Division / 4:19 John Vlass recalls his arrival in England and his observations of the landings at Omaha Beach on D-Day.
John Vlass, 526th Ordinance Company / 6:41 Ed LaPorta remembers the harrowing landing at Oran to start the US Army's campaign in North Africa.
Ed LaPorta, 1st Armored Division / 8:29 Ed LaPorta risks his life to save a terribly wounded soldier during the campaign in North Africa.
Ed LaPorta, 1st Armored Division / 4:42 Ed LaPorta recalls how he was captured by a German unit and the torture he endured during his first few weeks in captivity.
Ed LaPorta, 1st Armored Division / 7:58 Ed LaPorta and other POWs find a way to help the war effort from behind the barbed wire of a German prison camp.
Ed LaPorta, 1st Armored Division / 8:38 Ed LaPorta recalls how he and his fellow POWs would turn the table on their captors when their camp was visited by delegates representing the Geneva Convention.
Ed LaPorta, 1st Armored Division / 14:00 Ed LaPorta remembers, in vivid detail, the incredibly difficult 85 mile trek from his prison camp to the death camp at Buchenwald, and the horror he faced there.
Ed LaPorta, 1st Armored Division / 8:05 Larry Bowers' B-24 is shot down by German anti-aircraft fire, and he recalls how he survived those first few moments on the ground.
Larry Bowers, 445th Bomber Group / 5:42 H. Read Vaughn recalls the perils and vistas of the dangerous bombing runs over Tokyo near the end of the war.
H. Read Vaughn, 444th Bomber Group / 10:21 H. Read Vaughn spends time on Iwo Jima after its capture by Marines, and tells of his discoveries in the caves, and his impressions of the island.
H. Read Vaughn, 444th Bomber Group / 3:37 Ed McNally explains how the Germans treated him and his fellow prisoners very humanely during the course of their capture and confinement.
Ed McNally, 464th Bomber Group / 9:50 Clayton Byrd remembers the danger of showering while in the field
Clayton Byrd, 94th Infantry / 1:53 Clayton Byrd shares the amazing story of how he and his platoon kept fighting when surrounded by an overwhelming force, thus earning them all Silver Stars
Clayton Byrd, 94th Infantry / 13:50 Clayton Byrd and his company capture 4 German pillboxes in an unorthodox manner
Clayton Byrd, 94th Infantry / 2:07 Clayton Byrd shares his favorite war story about his friend, Chet Markowski
Clayton Byrd, 94th Infantry / 4:10 Bob Powell remembers his unit's action leading up to and during D-Day, maintaining allied air superiority over the beaches.
Bob Powell, 352nd Fighter Group / 6:39 Bob Powell catches a little bit of luck when he takes out a plane that both of his commanders miss.
Bob Powell, 352nd Fighter Group / 2:02 Bob Powell tells of the airfield battle known as The Death of the Luftwaffe, where American aces fought off a German attack while being outnumbered 5 to 1.
Bob Powell, 352nd Fighter Group / 3:42 After being mis-dropped over Normandy on D-Day, Carl Beck finds a friendly face and sets out to find his unit, and his mission.
Carl Beck, 101st Airborne Division / 7:35 Carl Beck recalls the drop and subsequent combat in Holland during Operation Market Garden.
Carl Beck, 101st Airborne Division / 4:51 Carl Beck recalls a personally terrifying moment while surrounded in Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge.
Carl Beck, 101st Airborne Division / 2:51 Carl Beck remembers a quick firefight that gave a friend a great story to impress the new replacements.
Carl Beck, 101st Airborne Division / 1:54 During intense combat, and fearing for the lives of both their patients and themselves, Dr. Gary Hill's PSH is calmed by their spiritual leader.
Dr. Gary Hill, Medical Service Corps - Portable Surgical Hospital / 2:48 Arthur Crowe recalls stumbling upon a German rally point while the 9th Infantry moves to isolate the German troops on the north end of the Cherbourg peninsula.
Arthur Crowe, 9th Infantry Division Artillery / 4:32 Arthur Crowe remembers the 9th Infantry taking part in the breakthrough at Saint Lo in Northern France by Patton's Third Army.
Arthur Crowe, 9th Infantry Division Artillery / 4:02 Arthur Crowe recalls how he watched from a plateau as a German unit, isolated in the winter wilderness, is targeted by artillery and fighter planes on strafing runs.
Arthur Crowe, 9th Infantry Division Artillery / 1:30 Arthur Crowe recalls the 9th Infantry taking part in the taking of the bridge at Remagen, the last standing bridge over the Rhine.
Arthur Crowe, 9th Infantry Division Artillery / 4:13 Reed Williams remembers the 502nd being taken off the line after Normandy for re-training and re-outfitting before Market Garden, and the tense situation in England at the time.
Reed Williams, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment (Pathfinders) / 4:16 Reed Williams goes through the events of the afternoon before taking off from England for the Airborne drops over Normandy the night before D-Day.
Reed Williams, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment (Pathfinders) / 9:31 Reed Williams and the rest of the 502nd PIR Pathfinders drop into Normandy in the early hours of June 4 as part of Mission Albany, the Airborne assault of Operation Overlord.
Reed Williams, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment (Pathfinders) / 11:24 Reed Williams recalls the drop of the 502nd PIR Pathfinders into a field Northwest of Eindhoven, The Netherlands during the opening landings of Operation Market Garden.
Reed Williams, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment (Pathfinders) / 8:14 During a harrowing mission to destroy a Messerschmidt assembly plant, Tom Parsons survives the Luftwaffe company front attack.
Tom Parsons, 44th Bomber Group / 3:14 Col. Jack Jacobs (ret.) expounds on the world of the soldier and their status as professionals.
Col. Jack Jacobs (ret.), U.S. Military Assistance Command / 2:13 Col. Jack Jacobs (ret.) survives a deadly ambush and takes over command of the 2nd Battalion, earning the Medal of Honor for his service.
Col. Jack Jacobs (ret.), U.S. Military Assistance Command / 2:36 Lew Jenkins recalls an artillery barrage that he launched from an infantry call for support, and how close the barrage came to killing Allied troops.
Lew Jenkins, 101st Field Artillery Regiment / 2:39 Lew Jenkins recalls getting into a direct fire fight with a German 88 and a sniper.
Lew Jenkins, 101st Field Artillery Regiment / 2:54 At the end of the war in Europe, Lew Jenkins gets attached to an Allied effort to re-settle the displaced persons who fled to Austria during the course of the war.
Lew Jenkins, 101st Field Artillery Regiment / 5:13 Carl Beck recalls how he was mis-dropped over Normandy on D-Day.
Carl Beck, 101st Airborne Division / 4:47 The awesome firepower of American artillery wins Bill Savich a 2nd Silver Star in Italy
Bill Savich, 88th Infantry / 4:15 Lewis Fern recounts a deadly encounter with a Tiger Tank in Italy
Lewis Fern, 82nd Airborne Division / :40 Lewis Fern witnesses the gruesome aftermath of an artillery strike in Anzio
Lewis Fern, 82nd Airborne Division / 1:00 Lewis Fern recounts a close call with Germans on a rainy night in Anzio
Lewis Fern, 82nd Airborne Division / 2:00 Glenn Gooch shares his first close encounter with a German soldier in France
Glenn Gooch, 4th Infantry / :50 Glenn Gooch's face is burned by machine gun fire in Northern Europe
Glenn Gooch, 4th Infantry / 1:56 Artillery observer Arthur Crowe tells of his unusual experience targeting a single enemy soldier in Normandy
Arthur Crowe, 9th Infantry / 1:45 Abraham Grossfield talks about the state of mind during combat while in Italy
Abraham Grossfield, 6th Infantry / 1:00 Airborne infantryman Roy Turner shares his face to face experience with a German soldier
Roy Turner, 82nd Airborne / 1:00 J.C. Fitzpatrick flies in formation over Normandy on D-Day and gets lost in the dark later that night.
JC Fitzpatrick, 8th Air Force / 4:04 Thomas Fitzgibbons tells of hand to hand fighting in the streets of an Italian town
Thomas Fitzgibbons, 1st Armored / 1:00 Thomas Fitzgibbons remembers the atrocities of war in Northern Italy
Thomas Fitzgibbons, 1st Armored / 1:30 Harold Souther shares his experiences with an officer's treatment of SS prisoners in Northern Europe
Harold Souther, 1st Infantry / 1:00 Raymond Murray recalls an incident between a Frenchman and an SS chaplain in Normandy
Raymond Murray, 3456 Ordinance Company / 1:30 Fred Pounds tells of a close call with artillery fire in Germany
Fred Pounds, 76th Infantry / :30 Fred King shares how he was wounded while barely avoiding death in Anzio
Fred King, 45th Infantry Division / 1:44 John Souther tells of how he won his Silver Star in North Africa
John Souther, 1st Armored / 3:11 Burt Vardeman loses his tail gunner over the Adriatic Sea when their bomber loses engines after a flak filled mission.
Burt Vardeman, 484th Bomber Group (Heavy) / 3:43 Burt Vardeman goes through the typical day of a member of a B-24 bomber crew during the war.
Burt Vardeman, 484th Bomber Group (Heavy) / 5:53 Weldon Storey has a close call while digging foxholes in Italy
Weldon Storey, 10th Mountain Division / 1:24 Weldon Storey remembers the death of his Brooklyn friend in Italy
Weldon Storey, 10th Mountain Division / 1:02 Ed Callahan remembers an incident with a bouncing grenade on an island in the pacific.
Ed Callahan, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment / 1:00 Jim Paine recounts being the only survivor after a tragic incident in France
Jim Paine, 100th Division / 1:27 Jim Paine stands guard over a hospital in France while being wounded
Jim Paine, 100th Division / 1:30 Jim Paine gives his impressions of what it was like to be under artillery fire
Jim Paine, 100th Division / 3:00 Ray Rogers recalls the Germans' unfortunate choice of escape vehicles during an artillery attack in France
Ray Rogers, 1st Infantry / :52 Ralph Hempel recalls the chaos following an ambush in Northern Italy
Ralph Hempel, 13th Armored Regiment / 2:34 Medal of Honor recipient Col. Jack Jacobs (ret.) remembers what starvation caused him to do during the Vietnam War
Col. Jack Jacobs (ret.), 9th Infantry Division / 2:48 Col. Jack Jacobs (ret.) remembers his first real combat experience in Vietnam
Col. Jack Jacobs (ret.), 9th Infantry Division / 3:32 Joe Peoples remembers being taken prisoner in Germany, but was helped to escape by an American sympathizer.
Joe Peoples, 9th Armored Division / 1:50 Joe Peoples talks about how he shot down a German fighter plane himself as his company took a German village.
Joe Peoples, 9th Armored Division / 2:27 John Souther remembers accidently coming upon a German position in North Africa and the combat that followed.
John Souther, 1st Armored / 2:34 A fresh Dave Williams is thrown into his first combat experience during the Battle of the Bulge.
Dave Williams, 78th Infantry / 2:13 Dave Williams recounts an attempt to get a photo of a Russian female officer.
Dave Williams, 78th Infantry / 1:51 Dave Williams recounts fighting in and around the Ruhr pocket.
Dave Williams, 78th Infantry / 4:19 Bob Jones is guarded by two P-51s during a long supply drop for OSS operators in Burma.
Bob Jones, 27th Troop Carrier Squadron / 4:12 Bob Jones recalls transporting injured Chinese troops and how their officers treated them.
Bob Jones, 27th Troop Carrier Squadron / 2:52 Bob Jones remembers how the Chinese troops siphoned gas from American planes in China.
Bob Jones, 27th Troop Carrier Squadron / 2:35 Jim Fletcher discovers the fate of refugees who fled the Japanese invasion.
Jim Fletcher, OSS Detachment 101 / 1:12 Jim Fletcher meets up with a friend from Induction and discovers a Japanese trap.
Jim Fletcher, OSS Detachment 101 / 1:07 Bob Welsh talks about his first combat experience, resulting in a textbook operation.
Bob Welsh, 87th Infantry Division / 4:20 Bob Welsh remembers being assigned to lead a reconnaissance team and discovering information about the Germans at Bastogne.
Bob Welsh, 87th Infantry Division / 4:47 Craig Leyda, a helicopter pilot in Vietnam, recalls a playful dog which led him to enemy headquarters.
Craig Leyda, 9th Cavalry Regiment / 3:30 James Dunlap, an Army Soldier, recalls a regrettable flight on an Air Force bombing run in Germany.
James Dunlap, 6th Cavalry Division / 3:45 Lester Brown, part of a Service Battalion, describes digging foxholes while under enemy artillery fire at Anzio.
Lester Brown, 27th Field Artillery Regiment / 3:30 Arthur Lester talks about arriving at Omaha Beach as an ambulance driver on the evening of D-Day and spending the night with two dead Soldiers.
Arthur Lester, 574th Ambulance Batallion / 2:57 Don Ogden runs into a cheap door when trying to get out of his nose gunner pod.
Don Ogden, 15th Bomber Group / 2:34 Bob Beziat, riding along in a light tank, takes fire in North Africa.
Bob Beziat, 1st Armored Division / 3:28 After escaping the Bataan Death March and being recaptured by the Japanese, Jim Horton remembers spending two and a half years at Cabanatuan prison camp in the Philippines.
Jim Horton, 21st Infantry Division / 4:14 Jim Horton remembers his journey from Cabanatuan to various Japanese prison camps until the end of World War II.
Jim Horton, 21st Infantry Division / 11:05 George Sossenko, serving for the Free French alongside British forces, describes his first battle experience as a tank pilot against German tanks in Egypt.
George Sossenko, Free French Forces Division / 2:33 George Sossenko talks about his final battle in France and the end of World War II.
George Sossenko, Free French Forces Division / 3:59 Hughes Davault remembers serving as a fighter squadron medic and witnessing terrible plane crashes. (Interview contributed by Russell Gray)
Hughes Davault, 339th Fighter Squadron / 5:29 Hughes Davault talks about having to "toughen up" as a medic in the South Pacific. (Interview contributed by Russell Gray)
Hughes Davault, 339th Fighter Squadron / 2:54 Hughes Davault remembers delivering a brief message for a soldier on his deathbed. (Interview contributed by Russell Gray)
Hughes Davault, 339th Fighter Squadron / 1:59 Hughes Davault recalls the callous treatment of a Japanese airman's dead body. (Interview contributed by Russell Gray)
Hughes Davault, 339th Fighter Squadron / 1:10 Hughes Davault talks about the order in which troops were designated to come home after the end of World War II. (Interview contributed by Russell Gray)
Hughes Davault, 339th Fighter Squadron / 2:17 Richard Eaton and other Airborne soldiers take a leisurely cruise across the Atlantic.
Richard Eaton, 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team / 1:06 Richard Eaton takes a Ranger company into the jungles of Vietnam to expose the positions of Vietcong supply tunnels.
Richard Eaton, Company H (Ranger), 75th Infantry / 4:21 Winston Williams remembers being briefed about landing at Omaha Beach and the sacrifice taken by his sergeant on D-Day.
Winston A. Williams, 29th Infantry Division / 1:30 Winston Williams talks about being captured by German soldiers after surviving D-Day, friendly fire and a German mortar attack.
Winston A. Williams, 29th Infantry Division / 8:13 Winston Williams describes being packed in a boxcar with forty other soldiers after being taken prisoner by the Germans in 1944.
Winston A. Williams, 29th Infantry Division / 4:07 Hugh Fleming describes his job as a truck driver, delivering people and supplies across Europe during World War II.
Hugh Fleming, 2640th Truck Company / 4:59 William Bates digs himself in next to a bridge only to have other infantrymen covet his hole.
William Bates, DUKW Crew Member / 3:26 William Bates relates the speed of the war once the invasion of Italy was a success.
William Bates, DUKW Crew Member / 7:44 William Bates recalls the testing of the first generation of heat seeking missiles during the campaign in North Africa.
William Bates, DUKW Crew Member / 1:50 William Bates along with other infantrymen take over a house in Germany for a night, much to the protest of the German owner.
William Bates, DUKW Crew Member / 1:42 Dick Arnold describes his first 24 hours of combat in France during World War II.
Dick Arnold, 87th Infantry Division / 11:51 Robert Benton flies air cover over the beaches at Normandy on D-Day.
Robert Benton, 36th Fighter Group / 1:05 James Moore hazards the cold to bring tanks to the front during the Battle of the Bulge.
James Moore, 2nd Armored Division / 1:37 Bob Keller encounters combat in Vietnam while capturing a new informant.
Bob Keller, 5th Special Forces Group / 1:53 Bob Keller gets caught in the crossfire between his unit and the enemy.
Bob Keller, 5th Special Forces Group / 2:39 Bob Keller plans an attack on an enemy position on a hillside, but the plan doesn't include firing his weapon.
Bob Keller, 5th Special Forces Group / 2:26 Stuart Jamison recalls the sights and sounds from patrolling the Korean Demilitarized Zone during the Cold War.
Stuart Jamison, 2nd Infantry Division / 2:21 Stuart Jamison describes the effects of napalm on the enemy and the landscape during the Vietnam War.
Stuart Jamison, 9th Infantry Division (ARVN) / 3:18 Stuart Jamison discusses the toll that casualties take on infantry units during combat.
Stuart Jamison, 9th Infantry Division (ARVN) / 1:10 Stuart Jamison talks about going into a particulary dangerous area of Vietnam and finding trouble.
Stuart Jamison, 9th Infantry Division (ARVN) / 5:15 Stuart Jamison remembers being caught behind a palm tree trunk while being fired upon by a Viet Cong.
Stuart Jamison, 9th Infantry Division (ARVN) / 1:12 Jack Brantley recalls the lack of rations in his battalion and what they ate to survive the Battle of Normandy.
Walter Jackson Brantley, 695th Armored Field Artillery Battalion / 1:41 Jack Brantley lands on Utah Beach at Normandy twelve days after the initial landings.
Walter Jackson Brantley, 695th Armored Field Artillery Battalion / 1:50 Jack Brantley remembers crossing the Atlantic from New York to England, and the drama between.
Walter Jackson Brantley, 695th Armored Field Artillery Battalion / 3:22 Jack Brantley witnesses the use of one of the first multiple rocket emplacements during the invasion of Germany.
Walter Jackson Brantley, 695th Armored Field Artillery Battalion / 1:40 Jack Brantley recalls two separate fighter crash landings and the aftermath to the German pilots.
Walter Jackson Brantley, 695th Armored Field Artillery Battalion / 3:57 Dick Arnold remembers his role in the Battle of the Bulge as a radio operator, and becoming the sole survivor of his 7-man spearhead group.
Dick Arnold, Temporarily detached to a heavy artillery FO Team / 16:48 Dick Arnold talks about delivering sad news to the Dutch city of Maastricht as a switchboard operator.
Dick Arnold, 228th Anti-aircraft Searchlight Battalion / 9:23 Dick Arnold remembers the sights and smells of clearing out Buchenwald murder camp in Germany after thousands of prisoners had died there.
Dick Arnold, Unassigned Walking Wounded / 10:50 Earl Williams witnesses the taking of lower Bataan, near Mariveles, by the Japanese, firsthand.
Earl Williams, Philippine Division / 3:17 William Walker crash lands a cargo plane in the desert between Oran and Nigeria, then has to deal with the affections of the locals.
William Walker, Third Air Force / 10:28 Ken Clark runs afoul of a stuck throttle assembly in the skies over his training field.
Ken Clark, 49th Fighter Group / 2:39 Ken Clark decides to scout an old Japanese base on New Guinea in the aftermath of McArthur's push, only to find the base less than deserted and certainly not unarmed.
Ken Clark, 49th Fighter Group / 1:24 Ken Clark and his flight group get confused about the way back to their base at Luzon after a successful bombing mission over Formosa.
Ken Clark, 49th Fighter Group / 2:36 Ken Clark recalls how he came to land one of the first combat aircraft in Tokyo after the peace accords were signed.
Ken Clark, 49th Fighter Group / 2:54 While attempting to drop bombs into caves in the mountainous areas of northern Luzon, Ken Clark takes damage that makes getting back to base and landing safely extremely difficult.
Ken Clark, 49th Fighter Group / 4:17 Ken Clark runs into hostile Japanese officers and cultural differences in post-war Tokyo.
Ken Clark, 49th Fighter Group / 3:36 Moran Helms talks about the time he spent fighting the "secret war" in Burma during World War II.
Moran Helms, 97th Infantry Division / 7:01 Moran Helms describes his reaction to hearing about the first atomic bomb being dropped at Hiroshima during World War II.
Moran Helms, 97th Infantry Division / 1:21 Rocky Bleier remembers making use of his running back skills to retrieve a precious gift from home during a Vietnamese artillery attack. (4-time Super Bowl winning Pittsburgh Steeler. www.rockybleier.com)
Rocky Bleier, Americal Division (23rd Infantry Division) / 2:28 Bernard Bentfeld recalls taking artillery fire in his first combat experience.
Bernard Bentfeld, 656th Tank Destroyer Battalion / 2:03 Bernard Bentfeld, as a member of a mobile recon unit, recalls how sparse the combat was.
Bernard Bentfeld, 656th Tank Destroyer Battalion / 1:13 Bernard Bentfeld and his unit have to cross the bridge at Remagen but get caught out in the open during German attacks.
Bernard Bentfeld, 656th Tank Destroyer Battalion / 3:34 During his three day journey to find his unit in Normandy, Oliver Diffey of the 101st Airborne and others from the 82nd Airborne come into close contact with a German Panzer tank.
Oliver Diffey, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment / 2:19 Ralph Turner, and the other mechanics in his squad, receive their first P38s, much to their delight. (Interview contributed by Dale Niesen)
Ralph Turner, 339th Fighter Squadron / 2:54 Brigadier General Harold Dye (retired) recalls his first impressions of Korea and his job as an investigator for the United Nations Military Armistice Commission.
Harold Dye, UN Military Armistice Commission / 4:22 An encounter with a North Korean investigator for the United Nations Military Armistice Commission adds perspective to a past encounter with a German officer at Buchenwald for Brigadier General Harold Dye (retired).
Harold Dye, UN Military Armistice Commission / 2:27 Robert Benton catches a break when a superior officer saves his life.
Robert Benton, 36th Fighter Group / 1:37 Robert Benton is assigned to teach new pilots how to fly the P-47 but encounters trouble before he even leaves the runway.
Robert Benton, 36th Fighter Group / 2:25 Neill "Jack" Cox discovers the irony of war when a German 88 round sends him running for cover.
Neill "Jack" Cox, 36th Infantry Division / 2:05 John Vlass takes German heavy rocket fire during the Battle of the Bulge.
John Vlass, 526th Ordinance Company / 1:43 Ed LaPorta is wounded in the leg by flying shrapnel and recalls his attempts to repair his damaged leg.
Ed LaPorta, 1st Armored Division / 2:51 Ray Stein reveals the machinations that led to the Manhattan Project and his undercover assignment for the Army at the Oak Ridge facility. (LONG CLIP)
Ray Stein, Special Engineer Detachment, Manhattan Project / 19:02 H. Read Vaughn recalls his first bombing campaign in the skies above the Burmese capitol, Rangoon.
H. Read Vaughn, 444th Bomber Group / 7:57 H. Read Vaughn and his crew operate out of China during their early campaign and have to endure a 45 day boat ride to their next station when a superior officer pulls rank.
H. Read Vaughn, 444th Bomber Group / 2:39 H. Read Vaughn explains the Japanese creations, Bakka Bombs, and his encounter with them.
H. Read Vaughn, 444th Bomber Group / 2:55 Ed McNally recalls the feeling of flying into an anti-aircraft fire cloud over Pelosti and how difficult the return to base turned out to be.
Ed McNally, 464th Bomber Group / 5:49 Ed McNally and crew have to bail out of their B-24 and just make it out in time.
Ed McNally, 464th Bomber Group / 6:28 Clayton Byrd tells of the first soldier he killed in Normandy
Clayton Byrd, 94th Infantry / 1:44 Clayton Byrd explains a comical incident on the Brittany Peninsula
Clayton Byrd, 94th Infantry / 1:38 Bob Powell's P-51 Mustang takes anti-aircraft fire during a strafing run on a German airfield, damaging his tail.
Bob Powell, 352nd Fighter Group / 2:05 After taking fire, Bob Powell makes a desperate attempt to land his damaged plane but the results of his landing give the people on the ground a real scare.
Bob Powell, 352nd Fighter Group / 3:29 Bob Powell blindly follows his colonel on a hard maneuver and comes away with his first victory.
Bob Powell, 352nd Fighter Group / 2:44 Seymour Lavine takes a patrol out into the jungles of New Guinea, but isn't prepared for what he and his men would face.
Seymour Lavine, 11th Airborne / 1:13 While on patrol on Luzon, Seymour Lavine leads a small unit with Phillipine guides, but runs into a much larger Japanese force.
Seymour Lavine, 11th Airborne / 1:08 In the mountains of Baguio, Seymour Lavine sees a Japanese bombing raid take out the cities below, forcing him and his unit to take cover.
Seymour Lavine, 11th Airborne / 1:10 Seymour Lavine attempts to use a makeshift shower in the jungles of the Phillipines, but finds a Japanese soldier waiting for him.
Seymour Lavine, 11th Airborne / 1:16 Mather Hyatt recalls how he traveled through Europe during his off days after the end of the war.
Mather Hyatt, 1651st Engineer Utility Detachment / 2:03 Mather Hyatt tells the story of a soldier from Alabama accosted by US troops as a side-effect of German infiltration during the Battle of the Bulge.
Mather Hyatt, 1651st Engineer Utility Detachment / 1:55 Mather Hyatt tells of his commanding officer during the early days of the occupation of Berlin.
Mather Hyatt, 1651st Engineer Utility Detachment / 2:46 Mather Hyatt loses a fellow soldier at a Russian Checkpoint during the early days of the occupation of Berlin.
Mather Hyatt, 1651st Engineer Utility Detachment / 1:33 Mather Hyatt recalls the story of the Leopoldville, an English transport ship, that fell afoul of the German's last push during the Battle of the Bulge.
Mather Hyatt, 1651st Engineer Utility Detachment / 0:55 Dr. Gary Hill explains the workings of the short-lived Portable Surgical Hospitals of the Army Medical Corps.
Dr. Gary Hill, Medical Service Corps - Portable Surgical Hospital / 3:31 Dr. Gary Hill reveals the crude, and under-equipped nature of the Portable Surgical Hospitals.
Dr. Gary Hill, Medical Service Corps - Portable Surgical Hospital / 1:59 Arthur Crowe remembers finding a target for artillery with the help of a Colonel, only to miss, and hit a signifigantly more important target.
Arthur Crowe, 9th Infantry Division Artillery / 1:46 Arthur Crowe explains the working of the vehicles taken to Europe by the Allied Forces and how they differed from the Germans.
Arthur Crowe, 9th Infantry Division Artillery / 2:51 Arthur Crowe talks about how faith and a friendship with the company Chaplin gave him interesting memories.
Arthur Crowe, 9th Infantry Division Artillery / 2:01 Arthur Crowe explains the awarding of points and how he had just enough points to go home as his unit broke up following VE Day.
Arthur Crowe, 9th Infantry Division Artillery / 2:01 Arthur Crowe remembers how a fellow soldier had a new deadly run in with a shallow river while laying cable for the company's communications.
Arthur Crowe, 9th Infantry Division Artillery / 3:07 Reed Williams and the 502nd move into Carentan on D+5 and have a number of close encounters with German tanks and fighter planes.
Reed Williams, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment (Pathfinders) / 3:03 Reed Williams remembers an incident in the drop zone of Operation Market Garden, not long after the landings, involving a large quantity of rations and a downed General.
Reed Williams, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment (Pathfinders) / 2:38 Tom Parsons tells the story of how he created his own good luck charm: a bullet with a name on it.
Tom Parsons, 44th Bomber Group / 1:49 Tom Parsons becomes a social outcast when he swears he shot at something that moved like a hummingbird.
Tom Parsons, 44th Bomber Group / 2:32 On July 4, 1944, while stationed in England, Tom Parsons gets a front row seat for an improvised Army Air Corp fireworks display.
Tom Parsons, 44th Bomber Group / 3:30 Col. Jack Jacobs (ret.) recalls his first combat experience in Vietnam as an advisor to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam.
Col. Jack Jacobs (ret.), U.S. Military Assistance Command / 3:16 Col. Jack Jacobs (ret.) goes through the normal operations of the Vietnamese battalion (2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry) that he was attached to.
Col. Jack Jacobs (ret.), U.S. Military Assistance Command / 2:41 Lew Jenkins goes over the type of work he usually did supporting infantry movements in the French and German wilderness.
Lew Jenkins, 101st Field Artillery Regiment / 7:52 Lew Jenkins remembers a series of little events over the course of a night spent bunkering down in a WWI redoubt near the French/German border.
Lew Jenkins, 101st Field Artillery Regiment / 3:22 NEW - Leo Goldner, while in the Philippines, interrupts an enemy soldier who emerges from the jungles to rape a USO performer.
Leo Goldner, WESPAC Group / 2:47 NEW - After sleeping among dead Japanese soldiers in the Philippines, 1st. Lt. Leo Goldner saves a life and is rewarded with a new place to live.
Leo Goldner, WESPAC Group / 2:51 NEW - Fred jumps on the eve of D-Day, encounters German soldiers and witnesses a fellow soldier captured and killed.
Fred Bahlau, 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR / 4:49 NEW - Army candidate Leo Goldner is supposed to be getting hand-to-hand combat training from Brigadier General (then Colonel) Frank Merrill but ends up training him instead.
Leo Goldner, WESPAC Group / 2:14 NEW - Fred enters Carentan on June 12, 1944, transfers a machine gun to a new position during heavy fighting. He sees a fellow soldier next to him shot between the eyes.
Fred Bahlau, 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR / 2:57 NEW - Fred talks about a joke played on a fellow soldier during a brief break in the action. (Caution: Potentially inappropriate material for children)
Fred Bahlau, 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR / 1:52 NEW - Fred talks about having to kill cows for food while in Holland. (Caution: Potentially inappropriate material for children)
Fred Bahlau, 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR / 1:30 NEW - Fred talks about his visit to Hitler's mountain top retreat, Berchtesgaden (Eagles Nest). (Caution: Potentially innapropriate material for children)
Fred Bahlau, 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR / 2:14 NEW - Fred visits a London bar while on leave. He finds a date but is forced to make a quick exit the following morning. (Caution: Potentially inappropriate material for children)
Fred Bahlau, 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR / 2:17 NEW - Tom Kennedy discusses a terrible accident while conducting pillbox and mine training in England.
Tom Kennedy, 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, G Co. / 2:17 NEW - Tom Kennedy about holding a wounded German soldier's hand as he dies.
Tom Kennedy, 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, G Co. / 1:50 NEW - Tom Kennedy participates in the Battle of Bloody Gulch near Carentan on June 12, 1944.
Tom Kennedy, 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, G Co. / 3:49 NEW - Tom Kennedy discusses a tragic recon mission as his jeep hits a mine.
Tom Kennedy, 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, G Co. / 2:22 NEW - Marvin prepares for the invasion of Japan but is saved at the last minute by the dropping of the two atomic bombs.
Marvin Newman, US Army, 40th Inf., 160th Reg. / 1:17 NEW - As a member of the OSS, Reed's Japanese interpretor, meets a former childhood friend while in China.
Reed Pelfrey, 101st, 502nd, H Co. / :41 NEW - Gary Campbell survives his helicopter losing power, making a forced landing in a rice paddy as Vietnamese farmers watch.
Gary Campbell, 196th Light Infantry Brigade, Americal Div. / 1:29 NEW - Gary Campbell survives a frontal attack by the NVA (North Vietnamese Army), as his helicopter group flies into an intense firefight.
Gary Campbell, 196th Light Infantry Brigade, Americal Div. / 1:05 NEW - Gary Campbell discusses a B-52 Arc Light mission that resulted in 138 NVA (North Vietnamese Army) deaths.
Gary Campbell, 196th Light Infantry Brigade, Americal Div. / 1:33 NEW - Gary Campbell discusses the discovery of an abandoned NVA (North Vietnamese Army) tunnel system.
Gary Campbell, 196th Light Infantry Brigade, Americal Div. / 1:05 NEW - Gary Campbell witnesses a 2nd Lt., standing only ten feet away from him, killed by a sniper round to the forehead.
Gary Campbell, 196th Light Infantry Brigade, Americal Div. / :47 NEW - Gary Campbell directs fire support on an enemy position, preventing a NVA (North Vietnamese Army) ambush.
Gary Campbell, 196th Light Infantry Brigade, Americal Div. / 1:32 NEW - Bob Belcher witnesses a V-2 rocket land near his foxhole, creating a hole large enough to fit a house in.
Bob Belcher, 3rd Army, 99th Inf. Div., 395th Inf., 3rd Battalion, Co. L, 3rd Platoon / .58 NEW - Bob Belcher survives a close call when a flare suddenly goes off, revealing his position to a bunch of German soldiers.
Bob Belcher, 3rd Army, 99th Inf. Div., 395th Inf., 3rd Battalion, Co. L, 3rd Platoon / 3:02 NEW - Bob Belcher is fired upon by a German sniper in a church bell tower. As he attempts to escape, he falls in a vegetable cellar as bullets whiz by him.
Bob Belcher, 3rd Army, 99th Inf. Div., 395th Inf., 3rd Battalion, Co. L, 3rd Platoon / 3:26 NEW - Bob Belcher witnesses a fellow soldier shot multiple times and is with him as he says his last words and dies.
Bob Belcher, 3rd Army, 99th Inf. Div., 395th Inf., 3rd Battalion, Co. L, 3rd Platoon / 1:16 NEW - During occupation duty in Germany, Bob experiences a light moment at a crossroad checkpoint.
Bob Belcher, 3rd Army, 99th Inf. Div., 395th Inf., 3rd Battalion, Co. L, 3rd Platoon / 1:04 Carl Beck has a close call in the hedgerows of Normandy after his D-Day drop
Carl Beck, 101st Airborne Division / 1:30 Carl Beck has his first encounter with prisoners in Northern Europe
Carl Beck, 101st Airborne Division / :23 House to house fighting leads to a close encounter in an Italian town
Bill Savich, 88th Infantry / 1:15 Lewis Fern gives his impressions of surviving an artillery barrage
Lewis Fern, 82nd Airborne Division / :20 Lewis Fern shares his experience during the landing at Anzio
Lewis Fern, 82nd Airborne Division / :40 Roy Turner gives his impression of artillery fire
Roy Turner, 82nd Airborne / :30 Harold Weixel tells of destroying two Tiger tanks in North Africa
Harold Weixel, 1st Armored Division / 1:30 Harold Weixel saves the life of an Italian soldier
Harold Weixel, 1st Armored Division / 1:10 Harold Weixel recalls the randomness of death for a fellow tanker in Italy
Harold Weixel, 1st Armored Division / :13 J.C. Fitzpatrick flies from England, over Germany, to airbases in Russia, fights with the German Air Force, then has to make the long trek back to England.
J.C. Fitzpatrick, 8th Air Force / 11:09 Raymond Smith tells of the fate of a German prisoner in Italy
Raymond Smith, 10th Armored / 1:00 Paul Compton tells of capturing Italians while they were still eating breakfast
Paul Compton, 1st Armored / 1:15 Paul Compton describes the heroic death of his unit's first casualty during a strafing attack by Messershmitts in North Africa
Paul Compton, 1st Armored / 1:40 Marion Holmes remembers the desperate actions of a starving village in France
Marion Holmes, 95th Infantry / 1:00 Marion Holmes tells of his experience with artillery fire in Europe
Marion Holmes, 95th Infantry / :30 John Souther recalls the death of his radioman in North Africa (story also told by Paul Compton)
John Souther, 1st Armored / 1:23 John Souther remembers how the Air Force saved the infantry in the battle for Anzio
John Souther, 1st Armored / 1:06 Radio Operator Burt Vardeman recounts his experience of coming under flak fire in his B-24 Liberator.
Burt Vardeman, 484th Bomber Group (Heavy) / 1:08 Bob Adams finds a mysterious dead German in Italy
Bob Adams, 345th Engineers / 1:36 Ed Riley recalls being under attack by Junkers in North Africa
Ed Riley, 81st Recon / 2:46 Brigadier General Clarence Irwin finds himself in a precarious position on a Pacific island
Clarence Irwin, 25th Infantry Division / :31 Ralph Hempel remembers a replacement in Italy
Ralph Hempel, 13th Armored Regiment / :45 John Jacobs remembers finding 25 German prisoners while taking a German town
John Jacobs, 30th Infantry Division / 1:08 Clyde Thrasher recalls the landing at Salerno Italy
Clyde Thrasher, 36th Infantry Division / 2:08 Clyde Thrasher remembers crawling across a field under heavy fire in Salerno Italy
Clyde Thrasher, 36th Infantry Division / 1:44 Clyde Thrasher's friend Duke engages in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy in Italy
Clyde Thrasher, 36th Infantry Division / :46 John Jacobs describes his role as a forward artillery observer and how he received two Silver Stars.
John Jacobs, 30th Infantry Division / 3:40 Fred King recounts various events while stuck on the frontlines at Anzio for five months.
Fred King, 45th Infantry Division / 8:03 Fred King breaks a soldier’s rule and gets a humorous surprise.
Fred King, 45th Infantry Division / 2:04 Andy Kiddey remembers leading an attack on a German tank in Italy.
Andy Kiddey, 1st Armored / 2:19 Andy Kiddey tells the story of being a passenger on a hospital plane dreadfully close to running out of fuel over Japan.
Andy Kiddey, Armored / 2:31 Joe Peoples remembers earning a Bronze Star fighting in Korea and dropping artillery on Koreans based on the scent of their breakfast.
Joe Peoples, 82nd Field Artillery / 4:00 Joe Peoples tells the story of an unexpected visit from his Vietnamese barber.
Joe Peoples, Air Cavalry / 1:06 Andy Carpenter, a loader on a tank, recalls action during the Battle of the Bulge, including the destruction of a German tank.
Andy Carpenter, 774th Tank Battalion / 4:38 Andy Carpenter tells the story of running over a mine his first day out on a tank in Germany.
Andy Carpenter, 774th Tank Battalion / 1:54 Hap Chandler recalls a story told to him by Captain Jim "Hoss" Williams (77th Infantry Division) who tried to get rid of an annoying subordinate in an unconventional way in Japan.
Hap Chandler, 8th Air Force / :55 Hap Chandler retells the story of his friend, Captain Jim "Hoss" Williams (77th Infantry Division), meeting Ernie Pyle, a famous war correspondent, before being attacked by the Japanese.
Hap Chandler, 8th Air Force / 1:16 John Souther recalls how he came into political office in Italy.
John Souther, 1st Armored / 2:32 Dave Williams takes on an entire German squad and ends up with a Silver Star.
Dave Williams, 78th Infantry / 4:42 Dave Williams remembers combat and surprise while crossing the Rhine river.
Dave Williams, 78th Infantry / 6:17 The pressure and anticipation break good men, including Dave Williams, during the Battle of the Bulge.
Dave Williams, 78th Infantry / 3:27 Don Ogden watches the horrors of a bombing run over the Ploesti Airfield.
Don Ogden, 15th Bomber Group / 2:16 Don Ogden's bomber takes flak during a run over Hungary and the plane goes down.
Don Ogden, 15th Bomber Group / 9:54 Don Ogden is tried by the German military after being captured.
Don Ogden, 15th Bomber Group / 1:51 Don Ogden remembers his time housed in a prison as a POW.
Don Ogden, 15th Bomber Group / 5:26 Don Ogden lives through horrid conditions and terrible treatment during the little known Death March through Germany.
Don Ogden, 15th Bomber Group / 1:41 As a POW, bomber crewman Don Ogden watches as the Hitler Youth act without consequences, leaving death in their wake.
Don Ogden, 15th Bomber Group / 2:49 Don Ogden, being marched across Germany by Nazi troops, is finally rescued by British soldiers but isn't out of danger yet.
Don Ogden, 15th Bomber Group / 2:14 Don Ogden is taken to a camp for rescued POWs and awaits the long trip home.
Don Ogden, 15th Bomber Group / 4:22 Don Ogden remembers three different bombing runs over Anzio and Normandy beaches as well as the Italian city of Casino.
Don Ogden, 15th Bomber Group / 1:28 Don Ogden watches a saboteur get his just desserts on an American airfield.
Don Ogden, 15th Bomber Group / 0:55 Jim Horton describes the treatment prisoners of war received from the Japanese during World War II.
Jim Horton, 21st Infantry Division / 2:43 Jim Horton tells the story of a new wonder drug that was given to him to treat his malnutrition sores.
Jim Horton, 21st Infantry Division / 1:15 George Sossenko remembers a battle in Italy during which his unit advanced too fast for their own good.
George Sossenko, Free French Forces Division / 2:00 Hughes Davault talks about being drafted into the Army after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. (Interview contributed by Russell Gray)
Hughes Davault, 339th Fighter Squadron / 2:07 Hughes Davault recalls meeting the pilot who was believed to have shot down Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a famed Japanese military leader, while the Admiral was on an inspection tour in the South Pacific on April 18, 1943. (Contributed by Russell Gray)
Hughes Davault, 339th Fighter Squadron / 1:27 Hughes Davault talks about the dangers of flying home after World War II was over, after the aircraft mechanics had already left. (Interview contributed by Russell Gray)
Hughes Davault, 339th Fighter Squadron / 2:57 Ray Stein shares his experience of working on the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Ray Stein, Special Engineer Detachment, Manhattan Project / 6:37 Bob Keller and his unit are chased down a cliff and through a creekbed by rock-throwing NVA troops.
Bob Keller, 5th Special Forces Group / 3:00 Earl Williams takes shrapnel in the arm and hip during a bombing raid on the air field at Mariveles, Bataan.
Earl Williams, Philippine Division / 1:31 Ralph Stinson describes passing a concentration camp as his unit made its way across Europe with Gen. Patton.
Ralph Stinson, Third Army / 1:14 Stephen Chick remembers a time when his infantry unit refused to fire at a particular German soldier.
Stephen Chick, 65th Infantry Division / 1:35 John Vlass professes his admiration for the destructive capabilities of the German 88.
John Vlass, 526th Ordinance Company / 1:04 Arthur Crowe recalls two memorable events on his transport ship in the waters off the French coast.
Arthur Crowe, 9th Infantry Division Artillery / 2:04 NEW - 1st Lt. Leo Goldner, who is Jewish, has an amazing encounter in the jungles of the Philippines.
Leo Goldner, WESPAC Group / 3:37
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